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Word: costs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow. ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60 cents ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would be devastated and there wouldn't be any exams...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Doom | 1/18/1978 | See Source »

...estimate the cost of the damage, Louise T. Ambler, curator of the Harvard University Collection, said yesterday. "The Adams portrait is probably the most valuable, but we don't make appraisals too often," she said...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Vandalism | 1/18/1978 | See Source »

...going public. At least half a dozen operate openly in Manhattan. Though their legality is uncertain, revenues are high enough to justify the risk of prosecution. Open five nights a week, Plato's attracts some 6,500 fun seekers-and grosses $90,000-a month. Six-week memberships cost $5 per couple. For the $25 admission price ($10 for single women, no unattached males allowed), couples can use the disco, pool, steambath and pool table. Next to the disco is the "mat room" for orgies, and down the hall are 20 "mini-swing" rooms for one to three couples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Is There Life in a Swingers' Club? | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

franchise, Louisiana voters in November 1966 amended the constitution and overwhelmingly approved a $35 million bond issue to finance the dome. The cost subsequently rose to $163 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Superdome Named Desire | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...believe some politicians did not profit, at least indirectly, from the project). However, Le Maire insists, "Only politicians could have put this thing together. It could never have been built by a blue ribbon commission. Sure, we made mistakes, but I think history will vindicate us. The dome would cost $500 million to build today. I don't think any other city will have the courage and imagination to build anything like it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Superdome Named Desire | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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